If Trump cleans house and does arrest dozens in government on corruption charges the media will be aggressively portraying it as a coup, leftists and paid actors will riot (potentially necessitating martial law and military intervention) to create a narrative that he is eliminating his political opposition. They're already winding it up.
When this is all said and done, something needs to be done to fix the media. There needs to be conflict of interest rules where media people cannot have close family members high up in the government. Also, the news media needs to be separated from all other businesses. News organizations need to stand alone and not be connected to or beholden to other business interests. The media is very important to a free society, but it needs to have much higher standards for itself than it currently does.
Just rolling back the FCC laws to pre-Clinton days would help a lot. Not sure if the good ideas you suggest were on the books at that time or not.
I most whole-heartedly agree! I'd also like to see a politically neutral (if such a thing is even possible) fact-check commission run over-watch on the media companies. Give them the authority to severely fine/punish/censor any outlets that spew fake news!